Recover SharePoint Sites

To recover protected Microsoft 365 SharePoint Online sites:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, go to Sources to set up your recovery task.

  2. Click on the Source name.

  3. Above the tree, select Show All > Protected.

  4. Find the sites you need and click the Recover button on that row to open the New Recovery form with the Latest snapshot (protection run).

  5. In the New Recovery form, if you need to add more SharePoint Online sites and/or recover from an earlier backup, click the Edit icon in the top right of the form.

    • To add SharePoint Online sites, enter a Search term on the left, locate the other SharePoint Online sites, and select them.

    • To use a different Recovery Point for a site, click the Edit icon on the tile for that site. Find the recovery point you need and click Select Recovery Point.

    To recover a site collection and its sub-sites, search using the site collection relative URL such as "/sites/myrootsite" and add them to the recovery task.

    Click Next: Recover Options to return to the form.

  6. Under Recover To, select Original Location or New Location.

    If you choose New Location, select a Registered Source and the Target.

    Sites created in satellite storage locations are recovered to the same location in the target tenant as the source tenant. If the same location is not available, the sites are recovered to the central location.
    This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

  7. Select your Recovery Options:

    • Continue on Error. Enable to recover even if errors occur when recovering SharePoint Online sites. For example, if one of the sites cannot be recovered, Cohesity will still attempt to recover the other selected sites.

    • Include Preservation Hold Library. Enable to recover the Preservation Hold Library that is part of the Cohesity snapshot. Recovering the Preservation Hold Library data may increase the recovery time substantially as it can include a large amount of data. The recovery will fail if the Target Location does not have sufficient space.

      This is a Private Preview feature. Private Preview was termed as Early Access in the earlier releases. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

    • Task Name. Change the default name of the recovery task.

  8. Click Start Recovery.

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